Biden’s Planned ICE Deportations of Criminal Immigrants Down 85% Compared to Obama

The Biden administration is internally planning to deport an unprecedentedly low number of illegal immigrants with criminal convictions beyond illegal entry, down about 85% compared to the peak of the Obama administration, according to a government document justifying the White House budget proposal for the upcoming year.

Homeland Security documents that offer a detailed breakdown of the department’s budget request for more than $60 billion in fiscal 2023 show that Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Enforcement Removal Operations Arm envisioned deporting 29,393 criminal immigrants this year, as well as in fiscal 2024 {snip}

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President Joe Biden’s anticipated removals are drastically lower compared to the more than 199,000 criminals that ICE removed in 2012, the highest year on record under former President Barack Obama. {snip}

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In President Joe Biden’s first full year in office, ICE planned to remove 91,000 criminal immigrants but only deported 38,000 in 2022.

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